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Any trouble using Windex on my gloss end guitar?

• Thread starter Pax
• Start date Dec five, 2022

• #21

^ And endeavour washing your hands once in a while.

I don't think whatever Eye Ages musicians caught the Black Death off a muddy lute, merely...

• #22

A lot of glass cleaners set on many plastics also. They will haze the surface and tin cause stress fractures in acrylics and polycarbonates. Most the only solvents that are safe are naphtha and mineral spirits, and those should be used with a light touch.

• #23

Yous guys make clean your guitars?!

• #24

...More often than not, if you can use a product on a car or on your furniture, you'll be ok. As most trunk paints and top coats came from the automotive manufacture and cervix or general wood finishes came from the piece of furniture industry...

IIRC a twoodfrd video exists showing him use Windex to clean a poly stop with exactly the aforementioned reasoning.

Only can't notice the video over again, and then perchance I don't remember correctly.

I may endeavor lens cleaner on a pocket-sized area - if safety for lens coatings how bad can it be?

• #25

I apply glass cleaner regularly on guitars. I find that it'south corking for cleaning gunk that fifty-fifty naptha seems to struggle with, and information technology doesn't leave any residue. Most of my glass cleaners are ammonia-free though. It's keen for cleaning fingerboard gunk and general schmutz off the trunk.

I've as well establish that peroxide wipes are great for cleaning a guitar body, especially now that COVID is a concern.

Exactly. I utilize glass cleaners for a lot of things, merely those are alcohol based.
Yet, a friend told me recently, that alcohol dissolves poly finish. Turns it into easily removable gel-like substance. Is it true?

• #27

the things that build upwards on your guitar are just oils and fats. use dishwashing liquid, a rag and some water. make a pre-mix in a small pot, or some kind of container. Wipe, and so wipe over again.
Don't use any sort of bleach/ammonia, information technology will rust everything that is steel.
Or, you lot can practise what i do which is never wipe them with annihilation unless stuff really builds up bad, which is not often at all.

• #28

Exactly. I use drinking glass cleaners for a lot of things, but those are alcohol based.
Nevertheless, a friend told me recently, that alcohol dissolves poly finish. Turns it into easily removable gel-like substance. Is information technology true?

not in my experience. Pretty much nothing dissolves poly.

• #29

Some ingenuity and elbow grease go a long manner.

• #30

Some ingenuity and elbow grease go a long mode.

Simply a fan of relic guitars having a field day.

• #31

Do Not apply it on a Nitro finished guitar, it contains an alcohol component. Alcohol and Nitro exercise not play well together.

Some ingenuity and elbow grease go a long way

that display is just so grossly irresponsible.. think of the waste .. y'all can just just remove the neck from the body and put it in the dish washer the next time it'southward cycled... Jeesh...
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• #35

Being a window cleaner, I will requite you my advice. You lot tin take information technology or leave it. Put a small corporeality of dishwashing liquid in a spray bottle and fill the residuum with water. Brand sure when you wipe it dry, the cloth y'all use is absolutely dry.

• #36

Is this your Strat?

If not, so proceed with caution.

• #37

• #38

Is this your Strat?

If not, and then proceed with caution.

Your chances of ruining a polycarbonate (plexiglass) cloth with glass cleaner is MUCH college than ruining a polyurethane painted finish.

• #39

Your chances of ruining a polycarbonate (plexiglass) material with glass cleaner is MUCH higher than ruining a polyurethane painted finish.

It'southward non drinking glass???? (and there'south me wondering how they got the screws in there without breaking it)

FWIW, I'd just purchase some guitar polish. At that place are many to choose from, some of which aren't too expensive and piece of work quite well. I quite similar the Fender stuff for light cleaning and Big Bends Gloss Sauce for a slightly more thorough going-over (progressing to cutting polishes if need be).

• #40

It's always a proficient idea to clean your guitar from bodily fluids earlier selling

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